2017-18 Celtics Season Thread

Well hell I agree with you. A trade of Randle would help us provided that the Lakers don't finish dead last.....draft 2018.

How is an organization supposed to deal with a Lamar Ball type parent? Does Lonzo tell him to shutup? Will he? What a headache. Oh well he is doing all he can to help the C's get a top pick so thank you for your big mouth.

The Lakers are stuck with this guy!!

I’m a LaVar hater. The guy is a jerk. He uses his kids and the fact that he’s given air time is a joke. I do my best to not click on any story that he’s a part of (it’s not easy) and i hope others do the same. He’s a parent; the Lakers and media should ignore him and not give him any air time. The only reason media should talk to parents is for those inspirational background stories. The Lakers should tell reporters if they ask questions about any players parents or family they will not only not answer them but they won’t take any further questions from said reporters and if they continue to break the rule they should remove their credentials. It’s not news. These are grown men at work - their parents should be irrelevant.

Ok sorry rant over - I won’t be talking about LaVar any longer.

No chance they trade up into the top of the draft if they don’t get the Lakers pick. It’d be virtually impossible to do so without taking away a major piece or two. The allure of the Lakers pick is adding without having to subtract. You want to trade Jaylen Brown and the Kings pick for one of these prospects? That’s the minimum of what it’s take.

You mean who Danny wants? Or you think Brad is making the picks?

Nikola Mirotic is an interesting player that will be available via trade soon and could fit as a 6-10 PF/C with 3 pt shooting ability. He wants to be traded to a contender and the Bulls need to move him.
By using the IR player exception they should be able to get it done, I think.

edit. nope can't use the exception

Not an expert on all the rules so I will take your word for it.

On a different note it seems as thought the C's could land someone very good with the DPE.

Down 30, IT just threw a punch/slap right at Wiggins throat. I've seen people saying it wasn't intentional, but come on, if that wasn't intentional what was he trying to do?

We can take the Cavs man, I can feel it.

It’s hard to say... teams don’t usually pay big money for defense and “winning plays”. The Celtics huge advantage (as long as the owners aren’t concerned about luxury tax money), is they can go over the cap to sign him AND their star money is already accounted for with Horford, Hayward and Kyrie. Would a team with cap room really use it to sign a guy like Smart? The team that might would be one who doesn’t have a max slot available, but already has its stars on the roster.

Let’s pretend Marcus was an unrestricted free agent this offseason. A team like the Lakers might make sense. They will likely come up short of two max slots but can get one plus a big chunk. So them signing a LeBron/George plus Marcus to go with the young guys would make sense. So maybe they would be a threat to give him 18m per in that instance because they’d be ready to win now. They won’t be though but has to be a team like that. Maybe the Sixers will have cap room to do that and not have to worry about it because their stars will be their young guys and Smart would be the glue guy they need to make it work. It’s going to take a very specific situation for a team to pay him because in the NBA it’s as much about WHEN you add guys as it is getting the guys themselves.

The non-tax payer midlevel exception is about 8.5m...

My guess is Marcus gets a Kelly Olynic type contract. 4/50 to 4/60

They kind of surrounded him, but maybe nobody did anything else because they knew IT was coming back from an injury? Not sure, it was a very psychedelic play.



I think he was frustrated, this is full on "sports psychologist" here, but it must be really hard for a guy to come out of a team that plays some very organized and fundamentally sound ball to then play in Cleveland which can't defend to save their lives and play a style of offense that can seriously only be described as f*ckball.

This really feels like 2010 again. We'll beat Lebron so hard it will cause him to quit his team mid-series and then move on to take over another franchise in search of his futile attempt to be Michael Jordan. The only thing missing is Delonte doing his mom.

LATE EDIT: Kind of unrelated but I didn't want to double post, but this is awesome to see. If Hayward is good to go for the playoffs, there's a very decent chance the C's can win it all this year. I'm hyped!

Evans most likely will require a first round pick with the way he is playing. Also, Larkin averages 11 mins a game but that’s only because they don’t favor in he games he doesn’t even play.

He certainly fits the Celtics mold and could add some real scoring punch to the second unit. However, I feel like their lack of scoring comes from Smart and the bigs more so than Morris and Rozier. They’d be better off finding an offensive Center to take Baynes minutes in games they don’t need a tradition center. Would be nice to platoon a guy like KO and Baynes depending on opponent.

I’d take him and let Stevens work it out but not for a first. I believe it will take one. His salary slot is so low that every contender will be after him.